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- A couple of years ago, 60 Minutes expressed an interest in discussing the fraud of the H-1B visa, but never did a story.
Instead, we get to watch more of this corporate propaganda.
If Click Bond really was leaving money on the table because he did not have enough employees, he would be hiring the most qualified available and making up the difference with training.
Click Bond is flat out lying! There are millions of US workers who are intelligent, ambitious, and hardworking. He is using stupid anecdotes to generalize a smear across millions of workers that want to work. - Reply to this comment
- Wow. Manufacturing companies are complaining and crying crocodile tears that they can't fill highly skilled positions. But on the other hand they expect people to put themselves massively in debt getting themselves trained in order to receive a measly $12 dollars an hour and no benefits. What, is your huge loan debt just going to magically go away once you start working on the factory floor? They don't care if you had to go into debt to work for them. Hence, they can't get anybody to work for them.
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- Wow. Manufacturing companies are complaining and crying crocodile tears that they can't fill highly skilled positions. But on the other hand they expect people to put themselves massively in debt getting themselves trained in order to receive a measly $12 dollars an hour and no benefits. What, is your huge loan debt just going to magically go away once you start working on the factory floor? They don't care if you had to go into debt to work for them. Hence, they can't get anybody to work for them.
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- This is a direct result of the government pushing the concept that everyone should go to college; high schools pushing the concept that you won't get anywhere without a college degree; people looking down their noses at manufacturing type work, ect. Instead of spending all that money for a degree that ends up being a worthless piece of paper, perhaps some should have pursued a different track. It is not the potential employer's responsibility to train people to be suitable for employment...do you expect your "white collar job" employer to pay for your college education? The UK has it right. The test their students and results of those tests determine whether you are college bound or not. Others go into trade.
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- This is nonsense. With a college degree and out of work in the A/E aspect of the construction industry, I repeatedly applied for related work in manufacturing, renovation product design and similar industries only to be denied. The reason, they were looking for a better match.
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- Employers treat employees like useless schydtt and toss them to the curb for the slightest chance at saving a nickel.
The 'job creators' are such a vile bunch that a number of employers are proudly and loudly firing people because Tuesday's election didn't go the way they wanted.
And young people are supposed to pony up a tidy sum for training (states keep cutting back on tech school aid, particularly in Tea Party states), and invest huge amounts of time in order to get into a $12.00/ hour job that will most likely be limited term?
Heck, even the driving story behind the article involved the idea that factory workers in Connecticut would be losing their jobs to people in Nevada.
Unions used to provide an acceptable baseline for how employer/ employee relationships worked, and non-union employers were competing for the best employees with union shops. As unions have declined, so have wages and job stability for all workers.
In addition, we need to get back to the idea that businesses exist as part of the larger community, not just a place for vultures to suck out the wealth of our nation. - Reply to this comment
- I think in school, its hard to find curriculum that genuinely matters. The students should routinely be asked to figure out instruction manuals and to be able to write a set of instructions also. For a lot of kids, sitting in their desks isn't the best way for them to learn. They need to be hands on.
They should be incorporating math skills in it too. You don't know how many time's I've heard "I don't like story problems". Just what do they think life is. Outside algebra class, there has never been an equation all laid out for me. In every case, I've needed to think though stuff and answer one question at a time in order to get "the ultimate answer".
These type of skills would serve the kids well for the rest of their lives and whether they want to be a surgeon or librarian or ditch digger, this would be learning that would actually do them good. - Reply to this comment
- "I can't tell you how many people, even coming out of higher ed with degrees, who can't put a sentence together...If you can't do the resume properly to get the job, you can't come to work for us," he says. "We're in the business of making fasteners that hold systems together that protect people in the air when they are flying. We're in the business of perfection."
Is this guy serious. Unless you are hiring people to write resumes there is no connection between resume and performance on job. - Reply to this comment
- man i get tired of hearing about the record profits corporations are making while they're sitting "on top of a pile of cash" then this complaint about not finding qualified workers. open your purse and train them, you greedy so and so's! or get that ridiculously overpaid ceo to operate these machines! expecting ready-made entry level grads is ridiculous; schools don't have the kind of money these companies have to invest in fancy-pants machinery
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